[nflug] picture printing problems

[Daniel V]

It looks to me like you resolved your script issue. Are the photos the same after the Picasa procedure ? If an MS product and/or Picasa changed your pictures, do you have access to the originals ? I don´t trust MS products to handle my photos, so I do photo rotation using an open-source solution, and this can be automated.

Does the graininess happen for all photos of a particular resolution ?

What GNU/Linux distribution are you using ? What version of Picasa ?
Do you have all your pictures available to you at your computer ?

I personally manage a baby photo collection of thousands of pictures and so maybe some of my experience might be of assistance.

regards,
Daniel



--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:

> From: Joe <josephj at main.nc.us>
> Subject: Re: [nflug] bash syntax problem - picture printing problems
> To: cloudlakedreamer at yahoo.com, nflug at nflug.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 5:11 PM
> My partner has a digital camera and she's been taking a
> large number of
> pictures of wild animals, etc. The pictures look great on
> the camera
> screen and on my notebook screen. Most were taken at the
> second best
> resolution - 1536x 2048. I used Picasa (under Linux) to
> export an
> "album" of them to a CDROM (I made sure to set
> jpeg quality to maximum
> during the export) and took it to the drugstore photo lab.
> When we got
> the normal-sized prints (I think they're about 4 x
> 5") back, they all
> looked grainy - almost pixelated. Is that res too low for
> even for that
> size print?
> 
> I talked to the photo tech who is pretty sharp and he said
> something
> about their computer messing with the images because the
> originals were
> not the same size (aspect ratio?) as the prints. He also
> said that
> regular film images were equivalent to up to 20 or more
> megapixels.
> 
> As a precaution, I have switched the camera to use its max
> resolution of
> 3072 x 2304. That really eats up memory cards fast. Is it
> really
> necessary if most of what i want is just prints and I
> don't do a lot of
> cropping or other editing? The only editing I've done
> so far was to
> rotate some 90 degrees when the shot was taken with the
> camera in
> "portrait" orientation.
> 
> But, I still have several thousand pictures, many of which
> I want to
> print, or perhaps even sell that seem to print grainy.
> These cannot
> easily be recreated. Some are of fauns as they grew up over
> the summer
> or as they were leaping in mid-air. Some are close-ups from
> a few feet away.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to debug/fix this and get it right from
> now on would
> be greatly appreciated.
> I'd RTFM if I knew which ones.
> 
> BTW, I still don't know why my script (the original
> question) didn't
> work as originally written.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Joe
> 
> Daniel V wrote:
> > What printing problems are you having?
> >
> > I think that picture printing is one of the main
> reasons people don't completely switch over from MS
> products to GNU/Linux. 
> >
> > Daniel V.
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 8/18/08, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us>
> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> From: Joe <josephj at main.nc.us>
> >> Subject: [nflug] bash syntax problem
> >> To: nflug at nflug.org
> >> Date: Monday, August 18, 2008, 12:03 AM
> >> Bash syntax often drives me batty.
> >> I'm having a problem printing some digital
> camera
> >> pictures, so I wrote a
> >> quick and dirty script to verify that the pictures
> I took
> >> to the photo
> >> shop are the same as the ones that were on the
> camera flash
> >> card.
> >> The script "chkpix" and it's output
> are
> >> below.
> >>
> >> The problem is in the cmp command line which
> can't seem
> >> to find the
> >> second file to compare.  The ls and md5sum
> commands find
> >> the file just
> >> fine, so the path is OK.
> >>
> >> When I run the cmp command by itself directly from
> the
> >> command line
> >> (with no shell variables), it works fine.
> >>
> >> I modified the script, eliminating the
> '\' at
> >> the end of the first cmp
> >> argument and made the command one long line and it
> worked.
> >>
> >> So, what's wrong with breaking up a long
> command line
> >> with one or more
> >> escaped carriage returns?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Joe
> >>
> >> chkpix:
> >>
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >> ## compare two pictures for identity
> >>
> >> cmp "/media/windoze/Documents and
> Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Olympus/${1}" \
> >> "/media/windoze/Documents and
> >> Settings/Owner/My Documents/Images/Rita/Even Less
> >> Prints/${1}"
> >> ls -l "/media/windoze/Documents and
> Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Olympus/${1}"
> >> ls -l "/media/windoze/Documents and
> Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Even Less Prints/${1}"
> >> md5sum -b "/media/windoze/Documents and
> >> Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Olympus/${1}"
> >> md5sum -b "/media/windoze/Documents and
> >> Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Even Less Prints/${1}"
> >>
> >>
> >> bigbird at sananda:~/bin$ bash chkpix P8063647.JPG
> >> cmp:  "/media/windoze/Documents and
> Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Even Less
> Prints/P8063647.JPG":
> >> No such file or
> >> directory
> >> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root ntfs-3g 634499 2008-08-06 17:10
> >> /media/windoze/Documents and Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Olympus/P8063647.JPG
> >> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root ntfs-3g 634499 2008-08-16 22:05
> >> /media/windoze/Documents and Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Even Less
> Prints/P8063647.JPG
> >> 5a54b325abb196f4806edb5d7a4cbf2b
> */media/windoze/Documents
> >> and
> >> Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Olympus/P8063647.JPG
> >> 5a54b325abb196f4806edb5d7a4cbf2b
> */media/windoze/Documents
> >> and
> >> Settings/Owner/My Documents/Images/Rita/Even Less
> >> Prints/P8063647.JPG
> >> bigbird at sananda:~/bin$
> >>
> >> bigbird at sananda:~/bin$ cmp
> "/media/windoze/Documents
> >> and
> >> Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Olympus/P8063647.JPG"
> >> "/media/windoze/Documents and
> Settings/Owner/My
> >> Documents/Images/Rita/Even Less
> Prints/P8063647.JPG"
> >> bigbird at sananda:~/bin$